Dozens of jailed people may get new DNA testing after Andrew Malkinson exoneration

Andrew Malkinson, who served 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

Scores of people who maintain they were wrongly convicted of rape and murder will have fresh DNA testing conducted in their cases after Andrew Malkinson’s exoneration.

The announcement by the miscarriage of justice body for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), comes ahead of the publication of a major review of its handling of Malkinson’s case.